Category:Downtown
Aerial view from south to north, downtown San Francisco and environs, c. 1953.
Photo: Ed Brady
Buena Vista Park provided a nice vista on a more demure skyline in about 1953.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
Pages in category "Downtown"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 266 total.
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- Bancroft's History Factory
- BANK OF CALIFORNIA and WILLIAM RALSTON
- Bank of Italy
- BARBARY COAST
- Bay Area Bicycle Action 1991
- BAY AREA COUNCIL
- Beat Generation and San Francisco's Culture of Dissent
- Beaux Arts in San Francisco
- Bechtel Corporation
- Before Local 2: Waiters Union Local 30
- BIKE MESSENGERING
- Birdseye View of San Francisco 1878
- Black Lives Matter—June 2020
- Bloodstains on Sacramento Street
- Bloody Thursday
- Bringing the War to Downtown San Francisco 1983
- Building San Francisco's BART tunnels
- Business Elite Consolidates Its Class Power
- Buy 'Em and Sell 'Em at Solem
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- California 40th Birthday Celebration 1890
- California Academy of Science
- CALL BUILDING 1906: BURNED BUT STANDING
- Captain John D. Spreckels
- Captain Robert Dollar
- Captain William Matson
- Christopher Buckley and the Politics of Urban Growth
- Citizens' Alliance
- City Front 1913
- Civic Beautification
- Civil War in Downtown SF 1860s
- Class Mobility and New Neighborhoods in Early 20th Century
- Colombo Market Arch
- Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway
- CORRUPTION CENTRAL: PETER P. McDONOUGH
- Cosmopolitan Liberalism, Harm, and the Profitable Beat Scene
- COVID-19 Diaries
- Covid-19: Practicing Anarchy While the State Fiddles
- Coxhead at Play
- Creating Gay Spaces: Spaces of Social and Sexual Freedom
- Critical Mass
- Curatorial Brilliance: Grace L. McCann Morley’s Directorship at the San Francisco Museum of Art
- CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE
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- David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works
- Decade of Political Conflict 1901-1911
- Del Monte Complaints
- Die-ins of Spring 1984
- Displacement and Trauma: A Public Health Crisis
- Dolores Park-Manhattanization
- Douglas Tilden: Monument Sculptor
- Neighborhood/Geography
- Downtown Scenes Early 20th Century
- Downtown Vista Before Manhattanization, mid-20th Century
- Dr Weirde on Dirty Harry
- Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate
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- Farmers Market 1943
- Fatty Arbuckle Scandal
- Ferry Building Clock Springs Forward
- FIRE!
- Folsom Street: The Miracle Mile
- Forty Years Walking Through San Francisco
- Freedom Now! to Free Speech: How the 1963-64 Bay Area Civil Rights Demonstrations Paved the Way to Campus Protest
- Freeways Never Built, or Unbuilt after 1989 quake
- From the Politics of Polarity to the Politics of Hyperpluralism
G
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- I-Hotel Eviction Eyewitness Account
- Immigration Building—INS, now ICE
- Inside Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's Life in San Francisco
- Interlocking Wealth Clusters Together
- Iranian Anti-Shah Protest 1978
- It Reached Out and Touched Me—Five Weeks at PacTel
- It Takes a Janitor . . .
- It's an Oily World Out There
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- Maiden Lane and the Pot-holes of History
- Making of a Bad Attitude
- MANILATOWN
- Margo St. James
- Mason and Market Streets
- Masons Arrive in San Francisco, Overthrow Elected Government
- Mechanics Pavilion
- Mel Lewis, Big Band Singer
- Messenger War, Messenger Peace???
- Mexican Soldiers Revolt Over Unpaid Wages
- Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route
- Money on Conspicuous Display
- Mud People in Downtown San Francisco
- MUNI Wildcat Fare Strike of 2005
N
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- Palace Hotel
- Percy Dana, Boxing Photographer
- PG&E Buys a “Grassroots” Group
- Pier 7
- Planning and Selling BART
- Politics in the Early 1890s
- Politics of Business
- Portola Observation Point Views Through the Years
- Powell and Market 1851
- Powell and Market Changes Through the Years
- Pre-Quake Tenderloin Hotels
- President Teddy Roosevelt 1903 San Francisco Visit
- Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS)
- Problems of Waterfront Planning
- Processed World
- Processed World: A Political History
- Produce Market
- Provincial Italian Cuisines: San Francisco Conserves Italian Heritage
- Public Schools in 19th Century San Francisco
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- San Francisco Bay: The Visit of the ''Juno''
- San Francisco CINEMASCAPE
- San Francisco Pride, Chelsea Manning, and Queer Assimilation
- San Francisco Singularity?
- SAN FRANCISCO'S ROLE IN THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES
- San Francisco's Sleaziest Street - Yesterday and Today
- San Francisco’s Haymarket: A Redemptive Tale of Class Struggle
- San Francisco’s Second Generation Business Elite
- Sanctuary City—for the Irish Too
- Satellite and Aerial Views
- Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco
- SF's Farmer's Market
- Shanghaiing
- Shanghaiing and its Abolition
- Sherman's Bank in Jackson Square
- Ships under Financial District
- Silver Legacy: San Francisco and the Comstock Lode
- Sitting Around at Fireman's Fund
- Spiffy San Francisco Spoon
- Stereographs
- Street artists
- Strip-Club Business: A Brief History
- Sun Yat-Sen
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- Talks: 2024 Videos
- Talks: 2025 Videos
- Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012
- Temple of Light and Flowers
- Temporary Coding
- That Office!: A Year's Worth of Journals About Working and Not-Working
- The Bay Area Council: A Business Lobby of BART Contractors
- The Bifurcated Skirt
- THE CALL BUILDING: SAN FRANCISCO'S FORGOTTEN SKYSCRAPER
- The Dangerous Beat
- The Embarcadero Reborn
- The Farmer Still Comes to Town
- The Ferry Building
- THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT
- The General Strike of 1934
- The Great Bicycle Protest of 1896
- The Market Street Railway
- The May Day 1971 protests in San Francisco
- The Moscone Center Job 1980
- The Olympic Club
- The Origins of Bay Area Transportation, or Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
- The Prison Ship 'Euphemia'
- The Rodney King Verdict Riots